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Tomisaku Kawasaki

1925 - 2020

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Tomisaku Kawasaki (川崎 富作, Kawasaki Tomisaku; February 1, 1925 – June 5, 2020) was a Japanese pediatrician who first described the condition now known as Kawasaki disease in the 1960s. Alongside rheumatic heart disease, Kawasaki disease is considered to be the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomisaku Kawasaki is the 600th most popular physician (up from 603rd in 2019). (up from 4,130th in 2019)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Tomisaku Kawasaki ranks 600 out of 726. Before him are Ludwig Traube, Richard Leach Maddox, Indira Nath, Metrodora, Giuseppe Pitrè, and Vilma Hugonnai. After him are Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Julieta Lanteri, Serenus Sammonicus, Homa Darabi, Ludwik Rajchman, and Gisela Januszewska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tomisaku Kawasaki ranks 368. Before him are Asunción Balaguer, Mahmoud Fayad, Albert Eschenmoser, Jimmy Reed, Gunther Schuller, and Ritwik Ghatak. After him are Bernard Morel, Phillip V. Tobias, Irina Arkhipova, Miklós Szilvási, Roque Olsen, and Adelina Gutiérrez. Among people deceased in 2020, Tomisaku Kawasaki ranks 473. Before him are Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Silva Batuta, Yehoshua Kenaz, Kansai Yamamoto, Birol Ünel, and Rudi Hoffmann. After him are Helen Reddy, Regis Philbin, Dieter Krause, Nikolai Gubenko, Nina Andreyeva, and Ephrem M'Bom.

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